Last week, St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and the St. Louis RSA (Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority) filed a lawsuit in Missouri state courts against the NFL and all 32 teams and the owners - because of the whole Los Angeles debacle that resulted in three NFL teams being moved in the span of 15 months. Of the three cities that lost teams, the NFL did the dirtiest work against the Gateway City.
You can read the full 52 page legal brief for yourself at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website.
Today, we finish reading the legal brief. We tackle all five counts of the lawsuit, which we'll briefly explain in layman's terms:
- Breach of Contract (against all defendants) - St. Louis acted in good faith to satisfy the NFL's relocation policy to try to keep the team in town. Further, the league themselves kept encouraging the region to continue to work on the stadium project. The team, on the other hand, failed to even TRY to do so.
- Unjust Enrichment (against all defendants) - The region is making the argument that the league's teams made money (due to a $550 million relocation fee) and the team's jump in value upon moving (an increase of about $700 million) was at the expense of the St. Louis area.
- Fraudulent Misrepresentation (against the former St. Louis team and Senor Stan) - This is where "(Professional Liar) Kevin Demoff's Greatest Hits" strongly comes into play.
- Fraudulent Misrepresentation (against all defendants) - This is where statements made by the league about the city's ability to keep the team come into play.
- Tortious Interference with Business Expectancy (against all defendants except the former St. Louis team) - The argument here is that the league - namely Jerry F. Jones - intentionally (and without justification) interfered with St. Louis' ability to get a final stadium deal done to keep the team in town.
Starting with this episode, we at WSC encourage you to send Imo's Pizza to the team's LA offices, care of Kevin Demoff (who infamously disrespected St. Louis cuisine). The team's address is in the legal brief.
Fair use: Randy Karraker's speech at the October 2015 NFL relocation meeting in St. Louis, as well as "Senor Stan" open this and all parts of our three-part program on this matter. All three also end with "I Can Take Anything" from Planes, Trains and Automobiles. (Coincidentally, the scene in the movie that uses the song takes place in St. Louis.) Starting with this episode, we also accentuate the idiocy with clips from "Bernie and Randy: the Podcast" and "Heart of the Matter."
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